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HK's Joshua Wong among 'world's greatest leaders': Fortune

Friday, March 27, 2015 - 19:56

Joshua Wong, the teenage face of Hong Kong's mass pro-democracy movement, once again challenged Chinese President Xi Jinping when he was named one of the world's 10 greatest leaders by Fortune magazine - just a few spots behind the communist leader.

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[HONG KONG] Joshua Wong, the teenage face of Hong Kong's mass pro-democracy movement, once again challenged Chinese President Xi Jinping when he was named one of the world's 10 greatest leaders by Fortune magazine - just a few spots behind the communist leader.

Mr Wong, who spearheaded mass street blockades which brought parts of the Asian financial centre to a standstill last year, sparked by restrictions from Beijing on how Hong Kong's next leader will be chosen, was 10th in Fortune's second annual "World's Greatest Leaders" list.

Mr Xi, by contrast, was ranked third.

"His nonviolent protest message and energetic idealism galvanised crowds that, over months, numbered in the hundreds of thousands," the American magazine said of Mr Wong.

It described the 18-year-old as "slight, and with a bowl cut", someone who "doesn't look like Hollywood's idea of a charismatic rebel leader".